About the book
This anthology contains stories from 27 women from 3 continents. These stories give mothers, those who wish to be mothers, and those who hope to understand mothers, insights into the work and joy, the trials and successes of motherhood. This book shows motherhood as extraordinary and mundane; fulfilling and frustrating; infinitely simple and incomprehensibly complex. Filled with love, joy, and passion, loss, pain, sadness, and struggle, this book shares knowledge gained, and insights learned.
About contributors
In this book, we meet women from all walks of life, different races and cultural backgrounds, women from different countries. We meet women who were pregnant as schoolgirls, those who mother alone, and those with loving partners, families, and friends. We meet women who live in poverty, who did not have the opportunity for formal education, and who have been victims of societal and relational violence. We meet entrepreneurs, authors, nurses, and educators. We meet women who have born children, women who could not have children, women who have mothered other people’s children, and women who have chosen not to have children. Some authors were well mothered with powerful role models of how they wanted to mother. Others were poorly mothered, their mothers serving as anti-models who showed who they did not want to be as mothers. You need a copy of this book, to be enticed by the dynamism of one word: Motherhood.